palm reading

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   telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand

   Synonymspalmistrychiromancychirology

   Broaderdivination

Questions about palm reading

What does palm reading mean?

palm reading means "telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand".

What is another word for palm reading?

Close synonyms include palmistry, chiromancy, chirology. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is palm reading a common word?

palm reading is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.